Poggioreale stands at 250m asl in the province
of Trapani. It totals about 2.000 inhabitants. The new town is comprised of
three large quarters lying at different levels, each one developing around its
own main piazza.

At a close distance, 393m asl stands the
ancient site of Poggioreale, a farming hamlet founded in the 1600s by
Francesco Morso. Of this old settlement, only few traces of the original
chess-board plan are still discernible.